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Any ideas for counteracting HNS? You know the type. Neck takes a plunge when you let it go. Yes I know some guitars are just balanced badly but when you have to make it work, what can you do? What did you do?

I bought a nice Levy 3.5" wide leather strap with suede backing from FDP sponsor Sweetwater. Yeah, 3.5" is a little wider than most guitarist usually get, it's more common for bassists. But the wider strap helped in 2 ways. It offered more surface area for the suede to grip on my shirt to prevent neck dive AND it helped disperse the weight of my guitar nicely since I have ongoing shoulder issues.

I actually have one of those spinner things. It's still in my junk box. One of these days. The Slinger strap isn't one of them. It goes around your waist and is meant to attach to the bottom horn and butt end of the guitar.

I use Dunlop flushmount strap locks, and put one under the horn...under where the neck pickup is, and the other at the butt end. I put the front mount about where the guitar or bass balances.

It is a wonderful strap. No weight on my hurting shoulders. Freedom.

As I told my brother in law, "My shoulder and back doesn't hurt, but my pants fall down."

I could no longer play without it.

In high school, I used a similar Fender waist strap due to a shoulder injury. I remember it was $14 in 1968. When my current shoulder situation came up, I looked for a modern, similar strap. Slinger Hip Strap came up. I praise it on a few forums.

I've used acoustic style straps with the shoe lace type extension that goes around the headstock behind the nut. Planet Waves has a trick little set up that is quick release where on half stays on the strap and the other on the guitar. Made for acoustics without a strap button at the hear of the neck. Works on electrics.

What Peegoo says about the textured natural suede is very true as well. Wear a cotton shirt for best "grip"

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